We often wear masks in our daily lives, carefully curating our words and actions to meet expectations.
This fear of revealing our authentic selves often stems from a deeply human concern: rejection.
What if people don't like who we truly are?
What if being ourselves isn’t ‘good enough.
At Where the Mind Grows, we’ll often talk with you about ‘self-centring’ back into your own authenticity. What I like to call ‘Know yourself, Be Yourself’ - a resource in our ‘Guiding Map’ coaching resources. Explored at coaching sessions and on our retreats, too.
Being in the 'wild' can help you embrace your own ‘wilderness’; that part of yourself you’ve often felt you had to hide.
Nature offers profound lessons in authenticity and acceptance.
Consider; the oak tree doesn't apologise for shedding leaves in autumn or for growing slowly. It simply follows its nature, standing tall through changing seasons.
Rivers don't question their path—they flow naturally around obstacles, adapting without resistance.
Wild animals don't pretend to be something they're not. The wolf doesn't try to chirp like a bird; it howls proudly. (although, just imagine that!)
Environment - or the places and people we spend time with and in - has a huge impact on this feeling of safety and authenticity.
In coaching, we’ll explore the strategies you need to help enhance your surroundings and be more yourself. Considering everything from communication, managing those inner feelings and also establishing boundaries and values in which to ‘navigate’ your world. True to your wild self.
By finding the ‘ecosystems’ we can be ourselves at our best, we can better contribute to good in the world. Often with our sense of cautiousness, we get in our own way.
When we immerse ourselves in natural settings, this wisdom becomes tangible. Walking through a forest, feeling small beneath ancient trees, you're reminded that you are part of something larger. Many clients share how this helps them to put things into different perspectives that can lead anxieties about social performance, to dissolve or lessen.
Or helps give them clarity and confidence to change their career and find a setting more purposeful or aligned to their true heart.
In a meadow buzzing with countless insects and flowering plants, diversity isn't just tolerated in nature—it's essential.
Nature doesn't judge. It simply is. And in that acceptance, perhaps you will find permission to be yourself
By regularly reconnecting with the natural world—whether through forest bathing, gardening, or simply watching clouds pass—absorb this lesson: authenticity isn't just acceptable, it's necessary. With love, respect and equality of course. Like every element in an ecosystem, we too have our genuine place.
This premise is woven into all our services at Where the Mind Grows.
People often seek out our sessions to delve deeper into understanding themselves better.
People share with us how the retreats we run have helped them ground and reconnect with themselves, trying new or different experiences and meeting new people, in which ‘no mask or filter’ is really required.
We’re all about unleashing your Natural Self at Where the Mind Grows because at the heart of you, is something wonderful.
We value your uniqueness and will help you to see this for yourself too.
We believe Nature reconnection is a beautiful part of uncovering compassion and kindness for yourself.
By being your true self, your capacity to do good in and with your world grows too.
Let’s not waste any more time.
There is no comparison.
You are one of a kind.
Keep that for yourself AND share it with the world!
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